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F. B. SPO ONER.

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No. 372,821. Patented 0v. 8, 1887-.

cheapen buckles of this description, as well as UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EREDERIoK 'R. SPOONER, OF BROOKL N, NEW YoRK.

BUCKLE.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,821, dated November 8, 1887.

Application filed July 11, 1887.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, FREDERIoK B. SPooNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBuckles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to buckles for suspenders and for other purposes, and especially to such buckles as are capable of adjustment at the front.

. The object of the invention is to simplify and to render them more easily manipulated in changing their location upon the web.

The invention accordingly consists in a buckle having an attaching-hook, combined with a lever or folding front portion provided with a movable or extensible tongue; also, in a buckle-frame provided with a hook, combined with a lever or hinged front portion having corrugations or teeth and an adjustable tongue; and, further, in a buckle-frame and hook formed integral and provided with a fixed cross-bar, combined with a front lever having a presser-bar cooperating with the cross-bar of the buckle-frame, and having a movable orextensible tongue co-operating with the hook of the said buckle-frame.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this description, and in which like'features are indicated by like letters of reference in the several views, Figure 1 is front elevation of a buckle embodying my invention. Fig. .2 is an edge view of the same, showing the web passed through the buckle. Fig. 3 is a top plan view with the lever or folding front portion of the buckle thrown back in order to show the under surface thereof. Fig. 4. is a view similar to Fig. 3, but with the lever closed, and with the buckle made entirely of sheet metal instead of in part of round wire.

Referring to the drawings, windicatesthe buckle-frame, which will be made, by preference, of a single piece of round spring-wire, (but may be made of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 4,) and b is thehook to receive the ring 0, to which is secured the front ends,d d, of the Suspender. This hook will, for the sake of economy and strength, be formed integral with the frame a, as shown in the drawings.

The letter 0 designates the crossbar, which by any suitable connections is secured to the frame a of the wire buckle about midway of its length, and is substantially flat upon its back, but depressed or grooved upon its front surface, in order that the presser-bar f ofthe lever or folding front portion, 9, may the more effectually co operate therewith to prevent the web from slipping through the buckle when the tongue h of said lever or front portion, 9, is extended beneath the hook b of the frame a. I

The lever or folding front portion, 9, which is fastened by a hinge to the buckle-frame, as shown,will be made,preferably,of sheet metal, on the score of cheapness, but may be made of round spring-wire, excepting the extensible tongue, which can best be made in all cases of suitable sheet metal.

The vertically projecting edges e of the cross-bar e will be made without teeth, which are neither necessary nor desirable in that relation, as said teeth retard the easy passage of the buckle when lowering or raising the latter on the web.

As will be seen, I may place teeth or corrugations e on the inner surface of the presser-bar f, (being, by preference, formed integral therewith,) by which construction the teeth are entirely removed from contact with the web when the lever or front portion, g, is raised to shift the buckle. This is an important feature in cases where teeth are deemed at all essential.

By my peculiar lever or folding front portion, 9, with its extensible tongue h, the position of the buckle on the web may be adjusted without the necessity of removing the ring 0 of the front Suspender-ends, d, from the hook b, as it is simply necessary to slide the extensible tongue h back or upward,so as to disengage it from the hook I), when the hinged or folding front portion may be lifted, and thereby raise the teeth on the presser bar or lever free from all contact with the web, thus releasing the presser-bar and permitting the necessary adjustment of the buckle on the web.

As will be seen, it is not necessary to remove the ring 0 from the hook b in order to raise the lever g in the adjustment of the buckle on the web. It is also obvious that the ring 0 may be easily removed from the hook b without sliding the tongue at all, it simply being necessary to press it down with the thumb, as in the ordinary sheet-metal Suspender-buckles. The principal function of the extensible or 5 sliding tongue is to permit, by its described with a lever or hinged front portion having corrugations or teeth and an extensible tongue, substantially as set forth.

3. A buckle comprising a frame provided 20 with a fixed cross-bar and an attaching-hook, and a lever or hinged front portion provided with a presser-bar and an extensible tongue, substantially as set forth.

Signed at York, in the county of York and '2 5 State of Pennsylvania, this 1st day of July,

FREDERICK B. SPOONER.

\Vitnesses:

P. M. SHIVE, WM. BEITZEL. 

